Payload
AFRICASAT-2 (MEASAT-2)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
AFRICASAT-2 (MEASAT-2) is a Malaysia payload satellite, launched on November 13, 1996 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 13, 1996 at 10:40 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44L →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Arabsat 2B & MEASAT 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,978 km
- Periapsis
- 35,943 km
- Inclination
- 12.25°
- Orbital period
- 1444.99 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Malaysia
- Launch mass
- 891.97 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-063B
- NORAD catalog №
- 24653
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Malaysia- Radar cross-section
- 60.1187 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational